Yeah, agreed. I don't expect West Indies to win this, but it's a lot closer than those adds make out. WI are running out of good overs as such but Pakistan have a big-hitting rookie in with just Afridi and tail to come. Misbah's the key.

I still ask the same question why make a green top when you want the trohpy to be a success and you want to see hitting and runs being scored..............WHY??????

You may want to see more roads and bigger scores but a lot of us are dying to see an ODI which is competitve at least. This is good. I wouldn't mind seeing even India losing if there is some fight in the game.

You may want to see more roads and bigger scores but a lot of us are dying to see an ODI which is competitve at least. This is good. I wouldn't mind seeing even India losing if there is some fight in the game.

A run fest could be equally as competitive as low scoring encounter.....i don't think its good presentation of ODI cricket......and CT's goal should have been to improve the image of ODI's

Tonge looks a decent bowler, certainly better than Baker. In fact I'd say the Windies C/D team did a pretty good job of defending that score. If Kemar Roach had been playing instead of Tino Best (who must never play again) it would have been closer as he swings the ball prodigiously. So all in all the bowling didn't look bad and Miller is a decent enough spinner if we get slightly different conditions in the next match.

The batting is disgraceful though. Not one batsman looks even half as good as the seniors. Those were not easy conditions for batting and the seniors might not have found it easy. But the fact remains that none of these players can play spin bowling effectively and today they found the seam movement extremely difficult to handle.

Why oh why is Flloyd Reifer in SA? If we are going to be so poor at batting we might as well have picked Braithwaite and Creary. 19 year old Kieron Powell should also be playing so we can establish some kind of positive from this tour. The best thing that can happen would be for Reifer to pick up an injury before the next game and therefore Sammy would be captain.